ACOUSTIC BLUES

Get your mojo working with the sweet sounds of slide and some soulful fingerstyle blues

Here we’re taking a look at two core techniques in blues: slide guitar and fingerstyle. The former can be particularly tricky if you’ve never tried it, but there are some key tips which we’ve outlined below. Perhaps most important is to use an open tuning (we’ve used open G in our tab example). By tuning your guitar’s strings to the notes of a simple major chord, you’re assured of a sound that ‘works’ as you lay the slide over several frets at once.